![]() Stick with the clean install and copy your configuration. You don't update packages frequently and don't follow the userįorums/newsletters where potential breakages are discussed, I would And they have to be run in order without skipping. Tricky stuff but sometimes they can't foresee what your configuration You're supposed to run to switch releases they try to automate the I haven't used SuSE much, but that's the general problem you get when Since all you're doing is upgrading the software, nothing more. But I had again skipped aĬouple of releases and ultimately discovered some problems. New point release of one you currently have) you can instruct it not to When you do a new install a distro (albeit a new one, or an upgrade to a The users again, /etc/hosts* (SOHO network) and the like. While before removing the previous version, in the past I haveĪlways done a clean installation. Install new software into a new partition and play with it for a In part because I tend to omit a couple of releases instead of justīlindly installing successive releases but also because I used to dev/hdb (the drive booted for Internet access, /etc/fstab has no information about /dev/hda) dev/hda (non-Internet drive, system doesn't even know about a modem, /etc/fstab mounts /dev/hdb2) In question, SuSE 9.2 on both drives, no other OS: Update vs Install, how best to manage /home?Īnswered By: Neil Youngman, Thomas Adam, Mike Orr, Benjamin Okopnik.īefore I go any further, here is the environment on the machine Make it so - this is a world of choices, and malleable tools like Linux allow Here's to hoping that you and yours are faring better than me and mine have. I do believe that our "Songs In The Key of Tux" series will be a big hit there My Star Trek crew is expecting to run the Internet Lounge at my nearby music Mess as belonging to the previous year, and move on. Suffice to say I'm lookingįorward to Chinese New Year on February 9th, so that I can declare the awful Had a great month, really - you'd rather not know. I often use this space to talk about whatever it is I'm up to. Too could be part of The Answer Gang, yourself. Of the enlightening and useful variety) - feel free to mail them to us - you Greetings, folks, and welcome once more to the world of The Answer Gang.īy the way, if you've any particularly marvelous answers (might we say, rants We make no guarantees about answers, but you can be anonymous on request.Ĭontents: ¶: Greetings From Heather Stern Update vs Install, how best to manage /home? after installing new kernel running lilo crushes system finding then catting tar and find We have guidelines for asking and answering questions. Linux Gazette 111: The Answer Gang (TWDT) The Answer Gang 111:īy Jim Dennis, Karl-Heinz Herrmann, Breen, Chris, and. Here's an autobiographical filksong she wrote called Slowly improving the preprocessing scripts she uses ever since. Took over the HTML editing for "The Answer Guy" in issue 28, and has been Safe to say, Linux has been an excellent companion and breadwinner. "strange systems" at a (then) 90 million dollar company. (Got the pin, got the Jacket, got about a zillion T-shirts.) When sheĭiscovered Linux in 1993, it wasn't long before the home systems ran Linuxīy 1995 she was training others in using Linux - and in charge of all the Windows related tech support than most people have spent with their computers. Heather is a hardware agnostic, but has spent more hours as a tech in Except it wasn't a Pet: it was one of those brands we find most Dad had finally broken down and gotten one of those personalĬomputers, only to find it needed regular care and feeding like any other By 8 she was a happy programmer, by 15 the system administratorįor the home. Heather got started in computing before she quite got started learningĮnglish. Heather is Linux Gazette's Technical Editor and The Answer Gang's Editor (though large dock icons are nice too) and has a snug $HOME in Much he enjoyed the desktop, bear enjoys Fvwm button bars best Only gotten into Linux recently, as he has been looking up to Bear has been The Editor Gal's teddy bear for some time now.
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